When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.